by Callie | Apr 30, 2023 | acceptance, chronic disease, chronic illness, chronic pain, creative, creativity, encouragement, Forest Therapy, Grief, Healing
It’s funny. When I healed from my illness, I thought that was it. I thought that was my one true, golden lesson in the inevitable suffering of humanity. I thought I was going to emerge victorious from my pain and yay – hooray – hazah! for the wisdom and...
by Callie | Nov 24, 2022 | chronic disease, chronic illness, creative, creativity, Divorce, Grief, Healing
For the past 6 months, I have been working on getting my certification as a forest therapy guide through the Association of Nature and Forest Therapy. As one of our final assignments, we were tasked with a “harvest project”. It was supposed to be something harvested...
by Callie | Oct 27, 2021 | chronic disease, chronic illness, chronic pain, Healing
http://For_Paul.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Google Podcasts | RSS This episode is in response to an email I get over and over. This time it was from Paul. But it’s been from many others. It’s for the me I was when chronic illness had made me...
by Callie | Aug 7, 2019 | chronic disease, chronic illness, Healing
https://media.blubrry.com/chronicallywell/p/content.blubrry.com/chronicallywell/I_mSelfish.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Google Podcasts | RSS I want you all to know something. In the past few years, I have acted selfishly. I had a very long...
by Callie | Apr 2, 2019 | chronic disease, chronic illness, Grief, Healing, health anxiety, suicidal thoughts, suicide
https://media.blubrry.com/chronicallywell/p/content.blubrry.com/chronicallywell/LivingMentallyWell_WhitneyGoodman.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Google Podcasts | RSS In this episode, I interview Whitney Goodman, LMFT, owner of Collaborative...
by Callie | Mar 22, 2019 | chronic disease, discouragement, encouragement, Healing
I’m in the first round of an edit of my book and having to wander back to the space I was in when I was first diagnosed with Interstitial Cystitis (IC). Ernest Hemingway said, “There is nothing to writing. You just sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”1 And indeed, I...
